CVSS 3.0
8.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-9586
curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-122, CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- haxx:curl